Govenor Patrick to the Supreme Court...

[Mike P]

I find that hard to believe--Obama is too smart to nominate a hack like Coupe Deval. With no prior judicial experience, it's very unlikely that the ABA will find him "qualified", and he'll have a hard time getting confirmed without that endorsement.

The ABA has no official standing in the process, just an advisory one, but without a "qualified" rating a nominee has an uphill fight.

[Cool Beans]

It's just politics..... put out a "short list" of non-comps that he probably wont be picking from so the media and the right will concentrate on picking the "short list" folks apart, then out of the blue he will pick a close to qualified woman (maybe Hispanic dissent) and she will appear a lot better than those on the "short list".